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The most destructive delusion of modernity - "safety first", eclipsing all other concerns. The idea that the purpose of life is to maximize its length, rather than its meaning.

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As a Vietnam era vet while in boot camp in 1970 and preparing to be an Army helo pilot, I spoke with many young men who just got back from Nam. They all told me about bad it was over there and how the US government lied about why we were there. They emphatically told me to find some way out of my military commitment and to never go over there. I have never ever trusted the US government now for over 52 years. I knew immediately that this C19 nonsense was all about subverting and enslaving US citizens into blindly doing as they're told. I'm still unmasked, I never locked down, I never social distanced, I never submitted to testing and am unvaccinated.

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May 6, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Thank you for sharing your family story. As a 69 year old unvaccinated person, I can tell you that no one I know agreed that schools, gyms or churches should have closed. No business should have closed. The younger people should not have been damaged and the oldsters should have been allowed to live the balance of their lives free and unafraid. I despise the evil people who hatched this sick “safety” scam and hope Satan has reserved the hottest corner of hell for them if they don’t pay in this life. Never again. We must never be sheep again for any reason.

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May 6, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Thanks again Mark, this is such wonderful reading. Love the descriptions of your family as they struggled with the barrage of covid news and measures.

In our family only my husband, eldest son and I are unvaxxed and maybe one or two contrarian nieces. Somehow we all got together and got along once the first month passed. But my youngest sister now has signs of MS that came on after first Moderna shot. Another sister's platelets went wild after JJ shot. Of maybe fifteen people I know injured by the shots she's the only one who reported it.

And we have had several suicides in my parish. Two women in their sixties killed themselves in one month, February. You can still smell despondency here. Seeing masked little squirrels out and about is a constant reminder that the switch can be thrown again by the CDC-following creeps in local government. I plan to resist. I'll never again trust any government agency in matters of health.

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Beautifully described window into the sorrow of these past two years for you. Thanks for sharing.

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May 6, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Pre pandemic, I was annoyed with how our healthcare costs were going up each year because of obesity and other food related issues among the old and young. During the pandemic, I was amazed at how they used old, sick, obese people as the reason we healthy folks should suffer with masks and lockdowns. Sorry to sound callous but I am not a burden to the Heathcare system as I eat well, work out and rarely go to a doctor. I lost over two years of my life because of other peoples’ bad choices. Time for people to start eating well and exercising rather than relying on a broken sickcare system and public health nazis.

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May 6, 2022·edited May 6, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Exceptional essay. But it’s really sad. And familiar. I’m the person in the family who hasn’t bought into the narrative and it’s so sad how afraid they are sometimes when they don’t need to be. so many lies and propaganda, but they don’t want to hear it. I’ve been reading for you for awhile, thank you for sharing your thoughts and writing talent. I recently left nyc due to mandates and before I lost my livelihood and basically got run out of town, I tried to fight it by attending marches and I wrote a blog called distressedliberal.com to show how illogical and wrong vax mandates are. I think nyc is a lost cause although I hate to say it. Where I am now people have much more common sense, it seems. There are more people who “see” than we know, I’m sure. Thanks again.

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My mom is 98, I can't go see her unless I'm boosted and PCR'd. She's bedridden, blind, deaf, and has no idea what's happening. I cry everyday that California health dept won't let me see my mom, and a ton of guilt. Plus my sisters hate me because I refrained from clot shot

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An excellent but sad story of this entire scandemic. It can imagine the frustration of trying to convince your parents they are being unnecessarily fearful. My own experience with friends and family was similar. Hitting your head against the wall. My wife's parents were in an assisted living facility and the staff took a photo of them sitting at a table, masked and holding a sign that said "We are fine". Looked just like a hostage photo. Being alive and being fine are two different things.

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Very good post. I decided early in 2020 that I was going to live while alive. In May of that year I had open heart surgery. After I got home, an old friend texted to check on me. I told her that some friends had brought me dinner and we were visiting. She replied, “I hope they’re wearing masks.” I answered, “Nope, not a mask in sight and I’m happy they’re here.” That comment was followed by a texting speech she gave me about how I needed to be careful, blah blah blah. I said that I appreciated her concern, but that I had survived brain surgery and heart surgery and I wasn’t scared of covid. Since then I have just tried to maintain a connection with her since I’ve known her since sixth grade, but I just avoid the topic of stupid covid and all the stupidity surrounding it. Now that her dad has terminal cancer, I wonder if she wishes she would not have distanced herself from him throughout 2020. Probably not…Blindness doesn’t just affect the eyes.

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May 6, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Im so sorry for your parents’ (& your) experience in such a climate of fear but they sure sound like survivors, esp your mom!

From the beginning I never believed the hyped up “deaths” & absolutely believed the survivability statistics for the vast majority of people @ any age. The phony, manufactured concern for the “vulnerable” was belied by the evil governors who mandated that covid elderly be put back into nursing homes to kill many more of those “vulnerable”.

When the covidian true believers were bleating only about covid “deaths”, I kept asking - what about everyone else dying of everything else?!?! What about the young, w/ their whole lives ahead being sacrificed for the elderly who have already lived?!?! Never could get a straight answer to either one except “but…Covid!” Lost so much faith in my fellow man the past 2 years. It’s been enlightening & depressing

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May 6, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Mark, your experiences with your parents during Christmas, struck a particular chord with me. My daughter and SIL live in the NE and have completely bought into the LMTV nonsense. They were coming to our home last Christmas, and we were so excited. My mother was recuperating in our home from hip surgery, so to make things easier, we reserved a week at an expensive hotel for the kids. They arrived late on Monday, called and told us they would be over in the morning. They called the next day, telling us that since we were not vaccinated (we had all previously had the virus), they would not come unless we all had tests. They also indicated they wanted us all to mask and social distance. I admit that I verbally took no prisoners. I was white hot MAD. We refused to test, they refused to come over and promptly left for Texas to visit his family. They also got on an airplane a couple of days later, flew to Hawaii, which was having an big outbreak. On Christmas Day, they FaceTimed us, and it took every ounce of my self control to be pleasant.

Everyone in SIL’s family has been ultra-jabbed, and they are the most unhealthy bunch I’ve ever known.

With a few months behind me, and lots of prayer, I now just feel sorry for them. They have been manipulated and brainwashed.

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May 6, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Thanks again, you’re a very gifted communicator. I’m always excited to see your name in my inbox! I was unable to visit my mom inside her assisted living for 7 months, it was through a closed window and an iPhone. She has dementia and couldn’t understand why she couldn’t come outside or us inside. Eventually we could sit outside supposed to be 6 feet apart and wear masks.🙄😡 I always made it a point to hug her when we began our visit and when she went back inside to the chagrin of some of the Nazi employees. One staff said she was seeing failure to thrive in her residents-depression and weight loss. I attribute my mom’s mental decline to the Covid nonsense, at one point she said she’d rather live normally and die than be locked up away from family. Then again, she’s a follower of Christ so she’s not afraid of death and knows a better place awaits. Praise the Lord! Revelation 21: 1-4 ❤️

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May 6, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

I've been saying, since nursing home lockdowns began, "who lives in a nursing home because they want to?" The nursing home population is not the population to "protect!" Please withhold your judgement until you've read this entire post. If anything, during their last days and months of life, the long-term care (AKA nursing home) population needs to be surrounded by their friends and family. My mother went to a long-term care facility, with no visitation allowed, during the scamdemic. She was coherent, but required TOTAL CARE. I knew she wouldn't receive all the basic help she needed to maintain some sort of dignity, and I was not allowed to enter the facility, to help. Mom's quality of life was in the shitter, and she knew it. When she developed a pneumonia from faulty swallowing, she agreed with her children that it was better to let nature take it's course. We moved her to a hospice house where we could visit all we wanted, she was kept comfortable, and died a few days later, with dignity and in the company of her children and grandchildren. Again, I ask, "who's in a long-term care facility because they WANT to be, and why is this the population we're (so-called) protecting?"

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May 6, 2022·edited May 6, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

Excellent piece! Sadly, our parents' generation has always had great trust in "the government" and "doctors." They were already on Medicaid before Obamacare decimated our medical care--and ensconced big pharma/big insurance profitability as the number one priority. The sad fact that the government paid hospitals bounties by classifying deaths during the scamdemic as "from" Covid, not "with" Covid--along with increasing bonuses for specific treatments that actually made things worse, is something that has forever broken my trust in any 3-letter agency, the government as a whole and most of our health"care" system, forever. Our local hospital system is the biggest employer in this part of the state--and so many doctors I know personally were just parroting CDC talking points and advising churches to close "to protect the elderly." Several of them now know the truth--but big pharma and the insurance industry has them by the nuts. If doctors don't use specific treatments (i.e., prescriptions) when tests come back a certain way, the insurance probably won't pay for the visit or the test. Read that again...despite having a primary care doctor familiar with YOU or YOUR CASE making decisions on how to treat or what to take, their treatments are dictated by insurance companies to sell more drugs. Often, multiple drugs that don't interact well together. And the FDA & CDC both do their damnedest to undermine or discredit (or ban) any natural cures or supplementation to allow people to make their own choices about how live healthy without pharmaceuticals. These regulatory agencies have become thieves to quality of life and ultimately, as the scamdemic proved undoubtedly, murderers.

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May 6, 2022Liked by Mark Oshinskie

My Mom passed in 2017 with the after effects of chemo and other cancer treatments. She would never even think about going against the advice of her doctors, never. I'm convinced the therapy shortened her life and lessened the quality of it- I was never convinced she was properly diagnosed. Myself and my siblings spent the last 3 days of her life with her, comforting as best we could- the last day she was totally incoherent and barely breathing- she mercifully passed that evening. I cannot imagine being denied access to her bedside those last days- I was fortunate enough to say goodbye.

Folks, it's just pure evil- we can't whitewash what's happened. I believe I know what my actions will be going forward in this hellish matrix- I pray for wisdom and discernment going forward. I believe there is more to my existence than just this brief time on earth- that's what gives me hope. Seems like a tough road ahead, though.

Mark, thanks for another timely post- please keep it up!

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